Is Bellegarde-sur-Valserine safe? France travel risk
Is Bellegarde-sur-Valserine safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Bellegarde-sur-Valserine scores 35/100 on our travel risk index (Moderate). The US State Department rates France Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution, updated 28 May 2025); the UK has no advice against travel; Canada says: exercise a high degree of caution. No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
Bellegarde-sur-Valserine scores 35/100 (Moderate). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and France (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Bellegarde-sur-Valserine: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (44/100) and natural hazards (41/100).
A score of 35 is higher than the scores of 42% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Location & Spatial Data
Found at 46.1083° N, 5.8267° E within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine is situated 401.9 km NW of Paris at an altitude of 361 m.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
46.1083° N, 5.8267° E
361 m
Europe/Paris
11,450
Transit Links & Medical Facilities
Proximate Regional Communities (France)
Climate by Month
Hottest: August (24 °C avg high); Wettest: May (150 mm).
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High °C | 5° | 6° | 10° | 14° | 18° | 22° | 24° | 24° | 21° | 16° | 10° | 5° |
| Low °C | -2° | -2° | 2° | 5° | 9° | 13° | 15° | 15° | 13° | 8° | 2° | -2° |
| Rain mm | 134 | 82 | 131 | 134 | 150 | 143 | 137 | 100 | 110 | 120 | 138 | 110 |
Normals: Geneva (26.8 km away).
Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floods | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 |
Most flood events within 100 km of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine happened in November (2 of 6 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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